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The Comfort of Conspiracy: A Review of "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?"

Scott Patrick argues that Gabriel Rockhill's Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism substitutes class analysis with conspiracy-focused explanation in its attempt to understand accommodation to imperialism among Marxist intellectuals.

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Against Civil Society: A Review of Anton Jäger’s 'Hyperpolitics'

Reviewed by Julian Assele – March 27, 2026

Julian Assele reviews Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics, finding fault in a conception of civil society that implicitly takes it as a neutral field of conflict rather than a weapon in class struggle used by capital to discipline racialized surplus labor. – Read review

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Building Epistemic Capacity: A Review of "Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry"

Reviewed by Sam Dee – February 18, 2026

Sam Dee reviews Notes Towards a Digital Workers' Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective, published by Common Notions Press. – Read review

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Process and Totality: A Review of David McNally's 'Slavery and Capitalism'

Reviewed by Julian Assele – December 17, 2025

David McNally's Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History offers a necessary corrective to the New History of Capitalism (NHC) group by embracing Marxism's revolutionary commitments, argues Julian Assele. – Read review

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Uneven and Confused Development in Left Art Criticism: A Review of Adam Turl's 'Gothic Capitalism'

Reviewed by Patricia Manos – September 24, 2025

Adam Turl's recent work on art, Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted From Heaven & Earth, substitutes aesthetic choices for concrete advice on cultural organizing, argues Patricia Manos. – Read review